Florida DCF Developing Treatment Foster Care Pilot

The Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) is developing a four-year pilot program to evaluate outcomes of treatment foster care for foster youth with intensive behavioral needs. A treatment foster care setting provides a short-term, family-like placement. The foster parents will receive specialized training in care coordination, de-escalation, crisis management, and other identified relevant skills to care for high acuity children, and they will have access to 24-hour, on-call, in-home crisis intervention and placement stabilization when needed.

The pilot was among the provisions of Florida Committee Substitute for Senate Bill (CS/SB . . .